Gaskins

[nelwild]

1891

Walter,wife Alice and 7 kids.

piece1521 folio33 p47

marriage june quart 1872 Bury St Edmunds Walter Gaskin/Alice Lamb 4a 738.

Nel.

[mar1]

Hi my great grandmother was Ruth Gsakin and I found her living in Wanstead/Leytonstone in the 1881 census.
My grandmother told me that her mum[Ruth] had brothers and sisters including Job and John and her father was called Henry.
Hope this is of some help.

[chadwicK52]

Hi Mar1, thanks for your reply. It looks like your grandmother`s mother Ruth was the sister of my grandfather`s mother Louisa born 1872. She married George Arthur Baldwin in 1894 at Sudbury. My grandfather fell out with his mother in his teens so the family know very little about the Gaskins apart from info in the censuses and little details like wearing her hair braided into buns on the side of her head and always wearing a necklace that could have been three penny pieces. Another story is that one of the Gaskin brothers was sold some stolen hay or similar, was jailed and when released had a fight in the street with the man who had sold him the hay. The fight being broken up by Louisa with a broom just like Norah Batty! She lived at Little Cornard and died in 1956. That`s about all we know due to the family schism. There isn`t even a photo of Louisa or her family. I would love to find out more or see what the Gaskins looked like. Thanks for any help.
Terry

[Romany Knaves]

Hi.
Since the name is not that common in Gypsy circles there is a christening record for a Cinderella Gaskin on the 7th of July 1839 at South Normanton in Derby, her parents are Enoch and Ellen Gaskin if it is any help to you.

[mar1]

Hi chadwick52,
I have several photos of Ruth which were given to me by my grandmother.
I also have a newspaper cutting of the funeral of John Gaskin the brother of Ruth.[from 1930's.]
My gran said to me that Ruth smoked a pipe and that even into her seventies would walk from Kelvedon to Tiptree every day to sell pegs!

[chadwicK52]

Hi Mar1, thanks for your reply. I have sent you a personal message,not sure how this service works,if you get an e-mail telling you that you have a message.
Terry

[janeo]

there was a family of Gaskins living in the Leicester Area in the 60s early 70s who where travellers ,the matriach of the family was a lady known has ''old mrs Gaskin '' she worn white pinnys [pinafores] and smoked a clay pipe she wore long skirts ,proper old gypsy woman ...Janeo

[chadwicK52]

In reply to Mar1`s post, I was wondering if my gt grandmother Louisa may have attended the funeral you mentioned and be on your photo. Thanks for any help.
Terry

[Gaskinhunt]

I’ve just joined this site as I’m researching my family background. You can imagine my shock when I saw this post ! My gran was a Romany, her mother was a gaskin and her father a fletcher. I’m if the understanding the Fletchers were from the Birmingham area whilst the Gaskins were from Suffolk. I’ve a great great uncle called Alfred Gaskin who was from Sudbury and was enlisted into the army in Byker showground in WW1 and was killed just outside Ypres in 1917. I visit his grave every year.
Where it gets interesting is that my gran married into the Hunt family and settled in Gateshead where I am from. I now live in Tiptree and appear to have unwittingly retraced my family footsteps South.
If anyone has any further information regarding the Gaskins in this area I’d love to hear from you. Jason